This website is the largest and most comprehensive collection of the best and brightest Christmas light and yard displays from all of California including the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley, Sacramento Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Lights of the Valley (LOTV) is now California Christmas Lights (CCL)!

Now with 383 Houses (346 confirmed for 2014), in 132 Cities, in 34 Counties.

2014 was our 16th year of the best Christmas displays in California.

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06/27/2015)

When my family moved to Livermore in 1992, we relied on newspaper listings to find local homes decorated with Christmas lights. The local newspaper was helpful but many times we would get lost or stumble on a "stinker". photo: Alex Dourov

So, I created a searchable database of confirmed and verifiedChristmas light displays so that everyone could avoid disappointing wild goose chases based on bad information. LightsOfTheValley.com was published on December 11, 1999. 16 seasons later its now called CaliforniaChristmasLights.com

NOTE: The Lights of the Valley site always "Closes" on New Years Day.
The site will "Open" again on the Friday After Thanksgiving Day!

NOVA TV, a European TV network, broadcast this video across 8 countries in Europe about Alex Dourov and CCL on December 24, 2009. This version of the video does NOT have a narration, but download this PDF FIRST, which contains the narration as translated into English (from Croatian).

Thanks for Supporting us Year After Year

A Very Special Thanks to our Technology Providers:

Without the generosity of these technology providers, this site would not be as useful and usable as it is. I am truly grateful for their investments in helping me bring this community service site to you.

InfoQuest Technologies, a leading provider of web hosting and other hosted Internet Business Solutions, has provided Lights of the Valley us with "advanced" web hosting for a number of years.

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